By the time she was 21, Gerda Klein had spent six years living under Nazi rule -- three of them in concentration camps.
At the height of its mainframe dominance in the 1980s, the rule of thumb was that IBM accounted for half of industry revenues, two-thirds of the profits and three-quarters of the market cap.
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Sri Lanka has been under emergency rule on-and-off for nearly three decades, most recently since the assassination in August 2005 of Lakshman Kadirgamar, an ethnic-Tamil foreign minister.
Rule 2111 is composed of three main obligations: reasonable-basis suitability, customer-specific suitability, and quantitative suitability.
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Judge Ahmed Refaat was in no doubt about the significance of the moment, as he spoke of the "dark" days of Mubarak's three-decade rule.
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By the end of the three-month process, 40% of the West Bank should be under Palestinian civilian rule (half of it under exclusive Palestinian control, half under joint security control).
In the Kurds' self-rule area, people voted for three layers of representation three provincial councils, a Kurdish regional parliament with 111 seats, and a national assembly in Baghdad.
The three-strike rule is currently in force north of the border for drivers resident in Northern Ireland.
How about this new rule: any reliever entering in mid-inning must face a minimum of three hitters or complete the inning, whichever comes first.
Currently, the rule against naked short-selling requires short-sellers to do one of three things: borrow the stock prior to selling it short, identify the stock before selling it short, or have a reasonable belief that they will be able to locate the stock in the future.
Sy Harding , editor of Street Smart Report, cites that last Fed tightening cycle as an illustration of a rule of thumb he calls "Three Steps and a Stumble"--the third rate hike kills the bull.
In 2008, in the first-ever multiparty elections, voters ended three decades of autocratic rule by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
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The Olympic committee of Kenya refused to waive its three-year no-compete rule before the athletes could represent their chosen countries.
Despite its long history and reputation al-Azhar was badly tainted by its close association with a string of Egyptian rulers, especially during Mr Mubarak's three-decade rule.
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Without a quorum of three, the NLRB can't issue case rulings or undertake rule-making and can do little more than oversee union elections.
The country lacks three of the fundamental requirements of democracy -- political pluralism, the rule of law and respect for human life.
The decision creates a three-way split among the federal circuits on the proper application of Rule 26 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure.
January 28, 2011, was dubbed the "Friday of Rage" because thousands of peaceful protesters seeking an end to President Hosni Mubarak's three-decade rule in Cairo were met with excessive force.
But three decades later, players have purchased tens of millions of rule books, odd-shaped dice and fantasy character figurines.
Problem number three is that our country, because of the winner-take-all rule, is divided into battleground states and flyover states.
As she takes office, however, Park will be mindful that many South Koreans are frustrated at the state of inter-Korean relations after the Lee government's five-year rule, which saw two nuclear tests, three long-range rocket launches and attacks blamed on North Korea that killed 50 South Koreans in 2010.
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